The Digest. 03.19.09.

Eric and Jakie, part of Kissing the Ceiling, a 2008 photographic series by Fred Muram. (Image courtesy of Fred Muram.)

• Malls R Us.
• Art openings, subway style. (Mercy, Mlle. Connasse.)
• Video of an underwater volcano exploding in Tonga. (NotCot.)
• The New York Times’s special Museums section. Including a story about all the crazy things museums are doing to attract audiences, including yoga at MoMA. Up next: Tae-bo at the Whitney.
• NPR revisits the Gardner Museum heist, the largest unsolved art heist in history.
• At Maastricht, “Old Masters are better than buying gold nuggets.”
• Vandalize your favorite websites with meteors and floods. (Thanks, Michele!)
• Artists: How not to approach a gallery, in one and two parts.
• The Twitterview, artist edition and McCain/Stephanopoulos edition. 
• Mothers and children.
• Oh, yes: Bad at Sports interviews Chris Ware. (Art Fag City.)
• Today’s Graff: Krik in Poland.
• A design history of the Playboy bunny.
• Brit Insurance Design award winners: Shepard Fairey, Make Magazine and the Indonesian makers of a wood radio. 
• What to do with all that brutalism.
• Shanty town architecture.
• In New Zealand: A tree house that resembles an onion. Another better shot here.
• Your moment of computer screen cleaning. (Thanks for making my day, San Suzie.)